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<p>
This page describes how the Tomcat server starts up.  There are several
different ways to start tomcat, including:
<ul>
  <li>From the command line.</li>
  <li>From a Java program as an embedded server.</li>
  <li>Automatically as a Windows service.</li>
</ul>
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<p>
A text description of the startup procedure is available
<a href="startup/serverStartup.txt">here.</a>
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="diagram"><strong>diagram</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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A UML sequence diagram of the startup procedure is available
<a href="startup/serverStartup.pdf">here.</a>
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<p>
The startup process can be customized in many ways, both
by modifying Tomcat code and by implementing your own
LifecycleListeners which are then registered in the server.xml
configuration file.
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